[Tango-L] The subject that never dies.

[Keith]

Floyd,

IMO, the first thing every lady need to learn is how to make a connection 
with the man and how to follow. But is that enough?  Well it is if the lady is 
satisfied to just make the steps and make the 'moves'. On the other hand, 
if she wants to dance in a beautiful and elegant way, and I've never met a 
lady who didn't, then of course she must also learn HOW to make the steps 
and the 'moves'.

Floyd, the lady's cross is a beautiful step. Or do you think it's just placing 
her LF in front of her RF. Are you satisfied with that, because IMHO the 
ladies are not.

Keith, HK


 On Tue Apr  1 21:13 , Floyd Baker  sent:

>
>So why  not teach followers the leads to follow instead of the 'move'
>being led?  With the style that one moves in Tango, the cross will
>then be able to happen by itself.., and only when led.   She doesn't
>have to 'learn' it as such.  
>
>Same with barrida, displacements, and similar single step moves... The
>women doesn't need to *learn* them...  They should have no effect on
>her normal 1 of 3 steps.   It is the leader's job to have his own two
>feet in place and, with the right timing, work to pull off any of
>these moves by himself.   The lady just keeps walking...  Nothing
>really different happened  to her, did it?  A barrida is simply a
>leader's embellishment and done entirely by the leader alone.  
>
>Even the volcada, a single exagerated step cross.   If the lady is
>over being surprized by tilts and other pheripheral distractions.., it
>hardly seems necessary to ever 'teach' her that move either.    
>